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@ yunbo
If I were you I would try to get that roll certified ASAP. I got word from a source in Toronto that some "hologram stickers" are appearing. So we might see a few 20,000/20,000 rolls in the future.
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03/20/2013 5:59 pm
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Dooby Rak: Quote:
I don't think this guy is the real buyer of the roll. I'll go far as to declare shenanigans here.
I'm not say he should post a photo of the roll to prove it, but I just have my doubts. Wow. Just please stop. You are way too negative. |
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If I were you I would try to get that roll certified ASAP.
How does one certify a roll? AFAIK, there is no security sealed thing that any of the TPG offer for rolls. |
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still $425, but, who knows...   |
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Those of you "congratulating" yunbo on making this buy need to give your heads a shake...  I feel very sorry to see anyone spend money so foolishly. Admittedly, yunbo states that Quote:
"I'm a naive guy... my logic is simple" I hope for your sake yunbo that you have lots of money to spare... because IMHO you have made a very significant mistake in spending this kind of money on this item... You could have made any number of investments be it in rare collectible coins, bullion, or the stock market that would eventually have returned you a tidy profit... I'm guessing a year from now you'd be lucky to sell this roll for $500 bucks... cameron93 |
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Thats your opinion cameron93. And quite frankly I think you are DEAD wrong. I think this roll will be worth way more than he paid 10-20 years down the road.
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To disagree is one thing, to rain on someone's parade is another. There's so much negativity here sometimes. Can we just be happy for the fact that someone got what they want?  |
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Cameron93, you're making a mistake by assuming he bought this as an investment. This is a prestige item that people with lots of cash can afford to indulge themselves with. Affluent people do it all the time. There's only one last penny roll and he has it. I'm pretty sure he knows he could have invested that money in something else. He's obviously happy with his decision and the proud owner of the last roll so why not congratulate him? Maybe you were the second placed bidder?   |
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 You are to negative, I'm going to continue to beat you until your attitude improves. If he is who he says he is, great. |
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If you want to own numismatic history, sometimes you gotta pay up for it.
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I think spending that kind of cash, on a merely a holographic sticker is asinine, and a real Canadian rarity can be had for that price. However, I digress, I can certainly relate if it is for pure pleasure, and nothing else.
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- if spend $500 on a new golf driver, and spend another $2000 on some nice Ping irons, then pay another $5000 in golf membership fees... what is actually left of my "investment"?
- if I spend $2000 on a 35 year-old bottle of single malt scotch and enjoy an ounce once a year on my birthday, in 26 years, what is left of my investment?
- if I spend $60,000 on a used car, which happens to have a little badge that says AMG and V12 on it, and in 5 years from now, it is worth $20,000... is that a good investment?
All can be addressed with a single answer - "who cares!" I love to golf, I love good scotch and I love performance sedans... I derive pleasure in all three, heck the car would probably cost me even more money in smoking tires and speeding tickets.... life is short, why would I care about investment potential when I am having fun (that is what bullion, GICs and real estate is for).
Cut the guy some slack - he bought it for the uniqueness, and the pleasure... if he has something really cool to show for the next decade, it is worth it. At $6600 it is still cheaper than golfing and scotch!!
If he says he bought it for investment, then go back to my first sentence in this post and then keep reading. The Bank of Canada Currency Museum has THE LAST CENT struck - that one, is the one that is special... the others are just the million or so coins that sat in boxes in Winnipeg for 6 months... it represents the last roll wrapped in special paper and a holographic sticker, nothing more...
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03/20/2013 6:36 pm
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At the end of the day, something is worth what people are willing to pay for it. It might not be worth that much to everyone, but it's worth it to at least one. I think we've all had occasion to say "He paid THAT much?" for an item that doesn't have that much appeal to us. Some of us may have even said "*I* paid that much?" after the euphoria passes. (Has this never happened to you? Be honest! LOL) A couple of people asked what the issue with buyers with concealed identities was. My reason is I like to look at an ebay auction and all the bidders, and check to see their relationship with the seller. If it's a very high percentage, then that's a fairly good indication that bidder is the seller with another account shilling the bidding. (Unless it's a very new-to-eBayer.) I tend not to bid in those cases, unless I'm really keen on the item. (And that's fairly rare for me.) With these concealed identities, I can't check that statistic and I wonder what the bidder is trying to hide and why. Rob Edited by Ravenzcoin
03/20/2013 6:48 pm
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